Playlist
Hot Off The Press:
Anton BRUCKNER Symphony No.5, in B Flat WAB 105.
c/w Excerpts from the rehearsals.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Wiener Philharmoniker.
Live recording 7 June 2004.
BMG Classics 82876 60749 (2-CD/SACD hybrid).
Joseph HAYDN: Folk Song Arrangements.
Scottish Songs for George Thomson I, Vol. 1. "O'er the hills and far awa" (Excerpt played). Lorna Andersen (Soprano), Jamie MacDougall (Tenor), Haydn Trio Eisenstadt.
Brilliant Classics 92278 (CD Budget).
Garbriel FAURÉ The Complete Songs - 1 "Au bord de l'eau. Larmes (excerpt played). Felicity Lott (Soprano), Jennifer Smith (Soprano), Geraldine McGreevy (Soprano), Stella Doufexis (Soprano), John Mark Ainsley (Tenor), Christopher Maltman (Baritone), Stephen Varcoe (Baritone), Graham Johnson (Piano).
Hyperion CDA 67333. (CD)
DAWN UPSHAW; Voices of Light.
Music of Messiaen, Debussy, Golijov and Fauré. Dawn Upshaw (Soprano) Gilbert Kalish (Piano).
NONESUCH 7559 -79812-2 (CD).
ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA,
R. Strauss; Ein Heldenleben, Maris Jansons (Conductor). Recorded live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam September 2004.
RCO LIVE RCO04005. (CD/SACD hybrid)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
BRAHMS Serenade No.2 in A Major, Op.16
Reviewer: Chris De Souza
First Choice:
London Symphony Orchestra, Bernhard Haitink (conductor) (recorded live 2003; c/w Symphony No.3)
LSO LIVE LSO0056 (CD, budget)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Bellini's I Puritani]
Consumer Slot -
SIR RICHARD RODNEY BENNET Murder on the Orient Express, Lady Caroline Lamb. Original soundtrack recordings.
Richard Rodney Bennett (Piano) Peter Mark (viola) New Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Marcus Dodds (conductor).
British Composers
EMI CLASSICS 5 86188 2 (CD, Budget)
HAMILTON Violin Concerto, Sinfonia for two orchestras, GOEHR violin concerto.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Norman Del Mar (conductor), Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson (conductor).
British Composers
EMI CLASSICS 5 86189 2 (CD, Budget)
MAXWELL DAVIES Revelation and Fall, Leopardi Fragments, Five Pieces Op.2, BIRTWISTLE Tragoedia. Mary Thomas (Soprano), Rosemary Phillips (contralto) Melos Ensemble, John Carewe (conductor), Pierrot Players, Peter Maxwell Davies, John Ogdon (piano), Lawrence Foster (conductor).
British Composers
EMI CLASSICS 5 86187 2 (CD, Budget)
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIS Salome. Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Janos Furst (conductor).
British Composers
EMI CLASSICS 5 86184 2 (2 -CD, Budget)
MAXWELL DAVIES Antarctic Symphony (Symphony No. 8)
Bremer Philharmoniker/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor)
Download from MaxOpus Music website:
www.music.maxopus.com
Cost: £3.00 for download of Symphony (includes liner notes in pdf format); or
£6.85 + postage for custom compilation CD (up to 74 minutes music, plus liner notes in custom booklet).
New Releases: Chamber
Reviewer: David Owen Norris
SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A Major 'The Trout' D667; Variations on 'Trockne Blumen' (Die schone Mullerin); Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen: Frank Braley (piano), Renaud Capucon (violin), Gerard Causse (viola), Gautier Capucon (cello), Alois Posch (double bass)
VIRGIN 545563 2 (CD)
BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in C Minor, Op.1, No.3; Variations in E Flat Major, Op.44; Piano Trio in B Flat Major, Op.11: The Florestan Trio
HYPERION CDA 67466 (CD)
MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No.1 in D Minor, Op.49; DVORAK Piano Trio in E Minor, OP.90 'Dumky': Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler (piano)
WARNER 2564614922 (CD)
BEETHOVEN The Late String Quartets - Quartet in E Flat Major, Op.127; Quartet in C Sharp Minor, Op, 131; Quartet in A Minor, Op.132; Quartet in F Major, Op.135; Quartet in F Minor, Op.95; Quartet in B Flat Major, Op.130; Grosse Fuege, OP.133: Takacs Quartet
DECCA 470 849-2 (3-CD, mid-price)
MOZART Clarinet Quintet K581; Kegelstatt Trio, K 498; Adagio & Fugue, K546: Michel Portal (clarinet), Jean -Claude Pennetier (piano), Ysaye Quartet
AEON AECD 0422 (CD)
An Interview with NeilLevin and PaulSchwendener of the Milken Archive.
Leonard BERNSTEIN, A Jewish Legacy; Hashkivennu (excerpt played c/w Israelite Chorus, Psalm 148, Halil, Yigdal, Four Sabras) Samuel Adler(conductor), BBC Singers, Avner Itai (conductor), Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)Angelina Reaux (mezzo-Soprano) and others. The Milken Archive.
NAXOS American Classics 8.559407 (CD, Budget)
WEILL, The Eternal Road, Highlights
Karl Dent (tenor), James Maddalena (baritone), Ted Christopher (baritone) Barbara Rearick (soprano), Berlin Radio Children's Choir, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz (conductor),
NAXOS American Classics 8.559402. (CD, Budget)
Darius MILHAUD, Service Sacré (Sabbath Morning Service with additional prayers for Friday evenings),
Yaron Windmueller (Baritone) Rabbi Rodbey Mariner (Reader), Prague Philharmonic Choir
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz (conductor)
NAXOS American Classics 8.559409. (CD, Budget).
CD entitled "JEWISH VOICES IN THE NEW WORLD, Chants and Prayers from the American Colonial Era"
Hashkivennu (Exerpt played) Rabbi Hazzan Ira Rohde Schola Hebraeica / Neil Levin (conductor)
NAXOS American Classics 8.559411. (CD, Budget).
CD Entitled "Introducing the World of American Jewish Music, Rare, New and Rediscovered American Classics"
JOSEPH RUMSHINSKY - Mayn Goldele (from Di Goldene Kale) (excerpt played c/w Dave Brubeck, Darius Milhaud, Joseph Asron amoungst others).
Nell Snaidas (soprano), Robert Bloch (tenor)
BBC Singers, Eliot Fisk, Vienna Boys Choir, Vienna Chamber Orchestra / Elli Jaffe (conductor) et al.
NAXOS American Classics 8.559406. (CD, Budget)
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THE RED RED ROSE: Burn's The Slave's Lament, played from CD entitled 'Songs and tunes from 18th century Scotland': Concerto Caledonia, Mhairi Lawson (Soprano) Jamie MacDougall (Tenor) David McGuinness (Harpsichord)
DELPHIAN DCD 34014
MACMILLAN; Symphony no.3 "Silence" (Premiere recording;
c/w the confessions of Isobel Gowdie): BBC Philharmonic, James MacMillan (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 10275
ORFF Carmina Burana:
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sally Mathews (Soprano), Lawrence Brownlee (Tenor), Christian Gerhaher (Baritone) Sir Simon Rattle (Conductor)
EMI CLASSICS 5 57888 2
RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
BARBER Vanessa, Op.32: Christine Brewer (Vanessa), Susan Graham (Erika), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (The Old Baroness); William Burden (Anatol), Neal Davies (The Old Doctor), Simon Birchall (Nicholas), Stephen Charlesworth (Footman), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
CHANDOS CHSA 5032 2 (2-CD/SACD hybrid)
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